Improvement in privy-seats



UNITED STATES HENRY W. CARPENTER, OF MADISON COUNTY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRlVY-SEATS.

Specification forming part of Letters-Patent No. 128,111, dated June 18, 1872.

To whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. CARPENTER, M. D., in the countyh of Madison and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Privy-Seat; and I do de- Clare that the following is a true and accurate description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon and being a part of this specification, in which- Figure lis a perspective view of my device with the valve open. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.

Like letters indicate like parts in each figure.

This invention consists in the employment of cushions composed of suitable flexible material, the ends of which are secured under wire-spring clips at the front and rear of the seat.

In the drawing, A represents an ordinary privy-seat, to the under side of which is secured a tube or box, B, around the hole, andv provided with a valve, C, hinged to its lower end so as to tightly close it. D is a lever, pivoted to the valve and projecting up through the seat, Whose opening for the lever may be provided with a plate, c, with which engages a notch on the lever to keep the valve open. The valve is provided with a counter-weight,A E, at the end of a rear-projecting arm, as shown, to keep the valve O closed. b is a spring-wire clip on the rear part of the seat, and b a similar one on the front edge. F are cushions, made of suitable flexible material, extended across either side of the opening in the seat, and secured by placing the ends under the clips b and b', which retain them in place. The tube or box may be made of wood, metal, or earthenware, and of any convenient form.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the seat A, the cusl1 ions F, and the clips b b', constructed and arranged substautiallyas described and shown, for the purposes set forth.

HENRY W. CARPENTER'M. D. Witnesses: v

GEO. W. CARPENTER, F. L. UEENNY. 

